Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Via Russ White , RFC 9199 was drawn to my attention (“Considerations for Large Authoritative DNS Server Operators”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 90

Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Coupled with Microsoft’s hardware requirements is a push to enable a more modern BIOS (UEFI) that supports features like Secure Boot and TPM 2.0

Windows 91

Windows Microsoft Hardware Intel 91

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 97

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 97

Scott Lowe

APRIL 7, 2023

Servers/Hardware Manoj Kumar provides a beginner’s guide to Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Operating Systems/Applications In Technology Short Take 166 , I mentioned Nick Schmidt’s article on D2. Virtualization William Lam takes a look at ESXi on the latest Intel NUC. and Kong API Gateway 3.0.

Applications 97

Applications Comparison Cloud Operating Systems 97

Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

Maegan Jong and Dominik Tornow have a blog series that, in their words, “aims to advance the understanding of Kubernetes and its underlying concepts.” Servers/Hardware. The folks at Netskope have a pair of blog posts on GCP OAuth token hijacking in Google Cloud ( part 1 , part 2 ). Operating Systems/Applications.

Linux 60

Linux Hardware Network Cloud 60

The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Apple’s hosting its second all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, and it seems like the company plans to squeeze in even more hardware announcements alongside its usual software updates. Otherwise, head to these links below for more: Tune in to The Verge ’s Apple WWDC 2021 live blog for commentary and feelings.

How To 73

How To Apple Operating Systems Conference 73

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Servers/Hardware. This is useful, in my opinion, because now platform operators have a “starting point” on the specific threats they need to try to mitigate. There’s also some great information in this Google Project Zero blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 94

Open Source Virtualization Applications Security 94

Galido

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Tech Websites 2019 - Information Technology Blog. Thus it is essential to always stay on top of news and information, whether it be by newsletter, following RSS feeds and blogs, tutorials or going back to school. Find the links to these blogs in the descriptions below.

Mobile 77

Mobile Data Center Security Virtualization 77

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 8, 2021

There’s some networking stuff, a few security links, and even a hardware-related article. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Cloudflare recently introduced its own object storage offering, announced in this blog post. Virtualization. Welcome to Technology Short Take #146! Networking.

IPv6 60

IPv6 Storage Hardware Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 27, 2023

Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? You can get more details on Koyeb’s Pulumi provider in this blog post. Operating Systems/Applications Dewan Ahmed has a great run-down on options for documentation-as-code. Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!

Programming 90

Programming Open Source Cloud Devops 90

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. release of netsim-tools in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Linux 74

Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

APRIL 15, 2022

My personal and professional life has kept me busy over the last couple of months, so things have been quiet here on the blog. Servers/Hardware. Cabling is hardware, right? More information is available in this Helm blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Version 3.8.0

Linux 74

Linux Load Balancer IPv6 Licensing 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

More information on the script is in his blog post. Servers/Hardware. Intel clearly has its sights set on expanding beyond just “servers” into many more platforms, including network hardware platforms. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Is it necessary?

Vmware 60

Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. Check out this blog post on the AWS re:Invent announcement , and take a look at Weave’s blog post on their involvement. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Lots of geekery in here!

Linux 60

Linux Network Tools Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

Vmware 74

Vmware Network Hardware Cloud 74

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

Servers/Hardware. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Netflix has a good post on how they use prioritized load shedding to provide a good user experience during system outages. Servers/Hardware. Check out the kube-linter GitHub repository , and read the Stackrox blog post announcing the project. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

SMB 60

SMB Cloud Fashion Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 74

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 74

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. Anders Eknert shows how to do—or at least provides a framework on getting started with—dynamic policy composition with Open Policy Agent (OPA) in this blog post from April 2021. Virtualization. (Seriously.).

Storage 79

Storage Hardware Policies Open Source 79

Galido

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Top 8 Highly Paid and in-demand Programming Languages in 2018 - Information Technology Blog. When programming applications for the operating system of Apple, iOS, and therefore to create apps for iPhone and iPad, you must use the Objective-C language. Objective-C.

Programming 81

Programming Operating Systems Open Source Applications 81

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Check this out.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Load Balancer 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. This is interesting enough that I might actually write up a separate blog post about it; stay tuned for that.

Virtualization 60

Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Here’s another collection of articles and blog posts about some of the common technologies that modern IT professionals will typically encounter. Servers/Hardware. The big news in the hardware space recently was the article regarding the purported Chinese hardware supply chain attack. Operating Systems/Applications.

Hardware 60

Hardware Open Source Vmware Linux 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. If you have feedback for me—you want to suggest a new blog I should follow or check, or you have some constructive criticism that will help me make this site better—I’d love to hear from you. 509 certificates used in mTLS.

Cloud 87

Cloud Tools Applications Policies 87

Scott Lowe

JULY 5, 2019

Servers/Hardware. Although I’ve by and large moved away from Apple hardware (I still have a MacBook Pro running macOS that sees very little use, and a Mac Pro running Fedora), I did see this article regarding a new keyboard for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Storage 60

Storage Hardware Open Source Vmware 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 16, 2021

Servers/Hardware. release recently; here’s the announcement blog post. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s pretty cool to see that GitHub is now supporting security keys for SSH Git operations. Virtualization. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Career/Soft Skills.

Cloud 60

Cloud Network Virtualization Guidelines 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2021

The collection of links shared below covers a fairly wide range of topics, from old Sun hardware to working with serverless frameworks in the public cloud. I read a couple of Cilium-related blog posts recently that may be useful. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Load Balancer Apple 60

Galido

JULY 20, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - iPhone Vs Android — A Comparative Study 2018 - Information Technology Blog. This could be true as Apple software only needs to work on Apple hardware, where Android software needs to work on multiple varieties of devices. Aesthetics, Hardware and Price. iPhones have a beautiful design.

Study 66

Study Apple Google Operating Systems 66

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of articles is a bit shorter than usual this time around, but I’ve still got a good collection of articles and posts covering topics in networking, hardware (mostly focused on Apple’s processors), cloud computing, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

Vmware 60

Vmware Cloud Network Hardware 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 11, 2016

In this post you’ll find a collection of links to articles discussing the major data center technologies—networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications, virtualization…you name it! (If Numan Siddique describes the native DHCP support available in OVN (Open Virtual Network). Servers/Hardware. Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Hardware Storage Linux 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. The big news in virtualization recently was AWS’ announcement of Firecracker , a lightweight VMM (virtual machine monitor) targeted at creating “microVMs” that are ideally suited for serverless environments.

Vmware 60

Vmware Authentication Virtualization Storage 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Linux 60

Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

see below in the “Operating Systems/Applications” section), Metaswitch has announced a Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin for Project Calico. Only a year late, I found this article about Cisco IOS XRv (as in “virtual”). Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Look at this.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Operating Systems Virtualization 60

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Yves Fauser discusses NSX integration with Kubernetes in this blog post. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. As an aside, I do find it fascinating that new storage startups often emerge with support for Linux first, then add other operating systems afterward.). Virtualization.

Vmware 60

Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

JULY 17, 2020

This is a great read overall, but one sentence in particular really caught my eye: “30 years ago I was able to write a complete multitasking operating system in Z80 assembly code. Jon Langemak is blogging again, and he jumps back into the “blogging saddle” with a post on working with tc on Linux systems.

Linux 60

Linux Apple Operating Systems Policies 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2015

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Have a look at this blog post for all the details.

Vmware 60

Vmware Network Virtualization IPv6 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Servers/Hardware. This blog post discusses some of the new network security functionality available in vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) version 1.2; Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

Firewall 60

Firewall Virtualization Network Storage 60